Palestinian Census Bureau announced in a statement that on the eve of the International Workers' Day, Palestinians' unemployment has been rising sharply in the past 10 years. The unemployment rate in 2007 was equal to 21.7% and in 2016 to 26.9 percent.

The citizens participated in the rally alongside Palestinians and local Arabs, and signed Robben Island Declaration which aims to release Marwan Barghouthi and other political prisoners in the prisons of the occupying regime.

Israel has offered some Arab countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, to establish an offensive Alliance like NATO against Iran. This was stated by Israel's War Minister Avigdor Lieberman, reports Deutsche Welle.

The First Intifada was a mass, civilian-based, unarmed resistance against the Israeli occupation. It involved every Palestinian city, town, village, and refugee camp. Thousands of people of all ages and strata of the Palestinian society were involved, be they men, women, children, adults, academics, merchants, or workers, each had their part to play.

Twenty-five years ago this weekend, a large-scale popular uprising by Palestinians began against Israel's then 20-year-old military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. Sparked by an incident in which four Palestinians were hit and killed by an Israeli driving in Gaza on December 8, 1987, Palestinian frustration at living under repressive Israeli military rule and Israel's growing colonial settlement enterprise erupted, grabbing international headlines and drawing attention to the plight of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. On this 25th anniversary, the IMEU offers the following fact sheet on the First Intifada.